list of countries by thorium reserves

Largest Thorium Reserves. Turkey’s total reserves is estimated to be about 344,000 tons or 11% of the world reserves. Venezuela and Brazil are two countries estimated each having 302,000 tons representing a total of 20% of the world reserves.

Under the USGS estimate, United States, Australia, and India have particularly large reserves of thorium. India and Australia are believed to possess about 300,000 tonnes each; i.e. each has 25% of the world’s thorium reserves.

List of countries by uranium reserves. Historical production for the Soviet Union includes the former Soviet Socialist Republics of Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, but excludes Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Historical production for the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan …

List of countries by foreign-exchange reserves (excluding gold) For reserves including gold, see List of countries by foreign-exchange reserves . This is a list of the top 33 sovereign states of the world sorted by their foreign-exchange reserves excluding gold reserves , but including special drawing rights (SDRs) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) reserve positions.

Thorium Distribution. Thorium is several times more abundant in Earth’s crust than all isotopes of uranium combined and thorium-232 is several hundred times more abundant than uranium-235. United States, Australia, and India have particularly large reserves of thorium. India and Australia are believed to possess more than half of world’s thorium reserves.

Australia, the world’s biggest uranium reserve holder, was estimated to possess 1.66 million tonnes (Mt) of known recoverable uranium resources as of 2011, accounting for about 31% of the world total. The nation produced 7,488t of uranium in 2013, becoming the third biggest uranium producing country.

Trends in the five countries with largest proven reserves of natural gas, according to the US Energy Information Administration This is a list of countries by natural gas proven reserves based on The World Factbook (when no citation is given).